NADE sponsors an annual conference that includes continuing education for members and testing for certification. Conferences are held in the spring of the year and are open to anyone interested in the field of document examination.

 

Previous conferences have been held in Baltimore, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Orlando, Albuquerque, Ann Arbor, Anaheim, Austin, Quebec City, Montreal, Portland and England.

 

The 2012 Conference will be held in San Diego, CA. The conference dates are April 27 to 29, 2012.

 

Hotel registration is now available!!!

Hilton San Diego Resort and Spa located on Mission Bay  www.hilton.com. 

Use registration code NADE. The room rates are $169 single and $189 double. The rate includes the room, internet access, parking and breakfast each morning. The pre-conference rooms are available for April 24-25. Full conference rooms are available for the nights of April 26-28 (checkout on April 29). For those who want to take extra time in San Diego, the room rates are available three days before and three days after the conference. 

 

2012 Pre-Conference Options are...

 

On April 25 Michael Jones will conduct a hands-on video deposition workshop. Selected attendees will be deposed and critiqued. This is an invaluable workshop. Michael is a professional videographer with more than 30 years experience. He uses top of the line equipment to record the deponent. Instructions how to present before a camera are given. Information regarding the laws that protect the deponent, how to check the camera angle and lighting and speech practices will also be provided. The workshop is limited to 25 attendees.

 

On April 26 George Reis presents a hands-on workshop for working with digital images. George is the author of Photoshop CS3 for forensics professionals. Information will be provided on the best practices for analyzing digital images. These images may be scanned pages, VSC images and any other digital images. This full-day workshop is great for anyone who uses Photoshop or an equivalent software product. George is an expert in photography and digital imaging. The workshop is limited to 25 attendees.

 

The conference will have speakers on many topics.

• Jury bias by Dr. Brad McAuliff

• Language and the Law by Dr. Sanford Schane

• Analyzing signatures on digital pads

• Advances in the use of the MovAlyzeR by Dr. Hans-Leo Teulings

• Update on the NAS report by Heidi Harrelson

• e-discovery by Dr. Hunter McMahan

• Proficiency testing by Derek Hammond

• NADE Ethics by Larry Liebscher

• A statistical approach to defining variability in handwriting by Mike Wakshull

• A non-morphologic method to differentiate genuine signatures from simulated ones by Fausto Brugnatelli

• The application of FHE to music-calligraphy by Dr. Martin Jarvis

• Non-Verbal Comunications by Dr. Seana Coulson

 

Stay tuned as additional speakers and more information will be posted as it becomes available!!

• Download the NADE Confrence Registration Form.
• Download the NADE Confrence SCHEDULE Form.